Elon Musk claims Tesla's fully autonomous self-driving cars will be available by the end of 2022

Elon Musk, a man not known for thinking small, has taken to the stage at an energy conference to announce his goals for the rest of the year. The Tesla chief said that he hopes his company's self-driving cars will be'in wide release' in the US and Europe by the end of 2022. Speaking at Offshore Northern Seas 2022 in Norway yesterday, he claimed that the launch of the autonomous electric vehicles depends on regulatory approval. The billionaire also said that he was focusing on the SpaceX Starship spacecraft, that had an orbital flight scheduled for this summer that has now been delayed. SpaceX was granted a license for this flight by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission earlier this month, and is now targeting a six-month window that opens on September 1. Musk told the audience: 'The two technologies I am focused on, trying to ideally get done before the end of the year, are getting our Starship into orbit ... and then having Tesla cars to be able to do self-driving.